Livonia Avenue & Barbey Street

Livonia Avenue and Barbey Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner is also named African Burial Ground Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Commitment Garden is 300 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
730 feet · 3 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
430 feet
New Lots Av/Barbey St · B15
Within a walk
24 places
12 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Livonia Avenue & Barbey Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 730 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. New Lots Av 3
    730 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Van Siclen Av 3
    810 feet
    3
  2. Pennsylvania Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New Lots Av/Barbey St, 430 feet away, for the B15.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av/Barbey St B15
    430 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Livonia Ave & Schenck Ave 16 docks in all
    220 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1939 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported eight crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

This corner is also named African Burial Ground Square, a co-naming enacted on July 1, 2013 (Local Law 50 of 2013).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 83 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on African Burial Ground Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Barbey Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Barbey Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Livonia Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Livonia Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Federal (late), and built between 1823 and 1824.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 libraries
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Barbey Prep Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    160 feet
  2. Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    630 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sankofa Park
    40 feet
  2. Sankofa Park Playground
    130 feet
  3. Commitment Garden
    300 feet
Show all 7
  1. ENY Youth Farm Garden
    300 feet
  2. Fresh Farm Garden
    550 feet
  3. Victory Garden B5 Garden
    700 feet
  4. Nehemiah 10 Community Garden
    1,030 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. New Lots Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    780 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. New Lots Learning Center Library
    450 feet
  2. New Lots Library
    450 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Lots Reformed Church Landmark · listed historic place
    460 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,070 feet
  2. Farm Country Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 19 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Barbey Street or Livonia Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.